Exploring molecular movement: does temperature matter?part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection This is a teacher demonstration used to show an example of kinetic molecular energy using food coloring and water. The students are also given opportunity to develop their own questions and tests.

Overnight Crystals to illustrate solubility conceptspart of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection This quick-lab provides a concrete experience with crystal formation from saturated salt solutions that can help students make solubility problems more relevant to their experience.

Subject:Chemistry:General Chemistry:Mixtures, Solutions, & Compounds,

Building A Proteinpart of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection This is a hands-on activity to assess the students understanding of peptide and disulfide bonds formed during protein synthesis. Students demonstrate the process of dehydration synthesis by combining amino acids through peptide bonds creating molecules of water, and one protein amino acid strand. It can also be used to assess students understanding of the process of translation.

Sink or Float: All Liquids Do Not Have the Same Densitypart of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection This activity is a classroom experiment where students participate or observe that different densities of liquids will yield different results in a sink-or-float activity.

Subject: , Chemistry:General Chemistry:Properties of Matter

Making Your Own Snowflake in a Jarpart of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection This Chemistry experiment investigates physical changes, solutions, supersaturated solutions, and states of matter.

Subject:Chemistry:General Chemistry:Mixtures, Solutions, & Compounds,

Chlorine Chemistry: A Building Block of Matterpart of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection This activity provides a demonstration and lab exploration of one of the main "building blocks" of the periodic table of elements: chlorine. During the lab, students compare physical and chemical properties of chlorine compounds.